Azure SQL Database Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 505 555
Rank change year-on-year +110 +50 -213
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 564 528 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 2.68% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 498 454 590
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,129 19,734 36,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.75% 21.42% 27.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 12,436 19,266
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,585 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 174 £71,250 -10.94% 57
North of England +107 135 £55,000 -4.35% 12
South East +47 97 £57,500 -11.54% 11
North West +56 91 £55,000 -4.35% 9
East of England +56 58 £51,333 +36.89% 10
South West +10 53 £57,500 +4.55% 16
Midlands +1 36 £51,250 -3.76% 8
Yorkshire +94 29 £57,500 - 1
East Midlands -1 18 £47,500 -17.39% 2
West Midlands -6 18 £55,000 +3.29% 6
North East +3 15 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.06%) CMS
4 6 (1.06%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.71%) Trello
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 564 (100.00%) Azure
2 188 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 136 (24.11%) Azure DevOps
4 104 (18.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (9.75%) Serverless
6 52 (9.22%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (9.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 51 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 47 (8.33%) Entra ID
9 42 (7.45%) PowerApps
10 41 (7.27%) Azure Logic Apps
11 39 (6.91%) Azure Functions
12 37 (6.56%) PaaS
13 32 (5.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 30 (5.32%) Power Automate
15 27 (4.79%) GitHub
16 24 (4.26%) IaaS
17 20 (3.55%) Azure Storage
17 20 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (3.37%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.17%) Broadband
2 42 (7.45%) Internet
3 21 (3.72%) DNS
4 20 (3.55%) Firewall
5 14 (2.48%) Network Security
6 12 (2.13%) WAN
7 8 (1.42%) VPN
8 7 (1.24%) LAN
9 5 (0.89%) DHCP
9 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.89%) SSL
9 5 (0.89%) VLAN
9 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.35%) MPLS
11 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (62.94%) SQL Server
2 163 (28.90%) Power BI
3 66 (11.70%) Data Lake
4 56 (9.93%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (9.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (7.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.72%) MySQL
9 16 (2.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 16 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (2.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (2.30%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.30%) Redis
12 11 (1.95%) Tableau
13 10 (1.77%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.60%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.60%) MariaDB
14 9 (1.60%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (1.42%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 39 (6.91%) Git
2 18 (3.19%) NUnit
3 14 (2.48%) Moq
3 14 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 12 (2.13%) JIRA
5 8 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.71%) GitLab
6 4 (0.71%) MSTest
7 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) Selenium
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.18%) Subversion
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 148 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.59%) Finance
3 42 (7.45%) Advertising
4 35 (6.21%) Marketing
5 25 (4.43%) Games
6 21 (3.72%) Retail
7 19 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.48%) Legal
8 14 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.95%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.24%) Law
10 7 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.06%) Aviation
11 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 238 (42.20%) Developer
2 165 (29.26%) .NET Developer
3 94 (16.67%) DBA
4 87 (15.43%) SQL DBA
5 70 (12.41%) Senior
6 62 (10.99%) Data Engineer
7 60 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
8 54 (9.57%) C# Developer
9 50 (8.87%) C# .NET Developer
10 44 (7.80%) Lead
11 37 (6.56%) Internet Developer
12 31 (5.50%) Azure Data Engineer
13 28 (4.96%) Analyst
13 28 (4.96%) Architect
14 25 (4.43%) Senior Developer
15 23 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.72%) Azure Developer
17 21 (3.72%) Software Engineer
17 21 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (44.50%) .NET
2 185 (32.80%) .NET Core
3 178 (31.56%) ASP.NET
4 177 (31.38%) CSS
5 174 (30.85%) HTML
6 165 (29.26%) Entity Framework
7 158 (28.01%) ASP.NET MVC
8 156 (27.66%) Blazor
9 155 (27.48%) CSS3
9 155 (27.48%) HTML5
10 43 (7.62%) .NET Framework
11 30 (5.32%) React
12 28 (4.96%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (3.01%) Razor View Engine
15 16 (2.84%) ARM Templates
15 16 (2.84%) jQuery
16 15 (2.66%) PySpark
17 13 (2.30%) LINQ
17 13 (2.30%) LINQ to SQL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (4.43%) Digital TV
3 18 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.24%) Social Media
11 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.71%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.71%) NHS
12 4 (0.71%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.71%) Replication
12 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.53%) BBC
13 3 (0.53%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.53%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 71 (12.59%) VMS
2 28 (4.96%) Windows
3 10 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.42%) Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (44.50%) Agile
2 177 (31.38%) DevOps
2 177 (31.38%) Full Stack Development
3 176 (31.21%) MVC
4 172 (30.50%) Business Intelligence
5 163 (28.90%) TDD
6 153 (27.13%) BDD
7 105 (18.62%) Analytics
8 82 (14.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 79 (14.01%) Performance Tuning
10 75 (13.30%) High Availability
11 74 (13.12%) CI/CD
12 73 (12.94%) Collaborative Working
13 65 (11.52%) ETL
14 54 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (8.33%) Data Analytics
16 46 (8.16%) Data Modelling
17 44 (7.80%) Data Engineering
18 39 (6.91%) Data Pipeline
19 37 (6.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 544 (96.45%) SQL
2 261 (46.28%) C#
3 202 (35.82%) JavaScript
4 116 (20.57%) T-SQL
5 92 (16.31%) PowerShell
6 70 (12.41%) Python
7 29 (5.14%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.01%) R
9 15 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (2.13%) Java
11 11 (1.95%) Go
11 11 (1.95%) Scala
12 10 (1.77%) Bash
13 9 (1.60%) U-SQL
13 9 (1.60%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.24%) Groovy
14 7 (1.24%) PHP
14 7 (1.24%) Ruby
15 4 (0.71%) Bicep
16 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 104 (18.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 49 (8.69%) Degree
3 38 (6.74%) Azure Certification
4 25 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.77%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.42%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.53%) CIPD
10 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.35%) CIMA
11 2 (0.35%) MCSA
11 2 (0.35%) MCSE
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.13%) QA
4 5 (0.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.35%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (14.54%) Virtual Machines
2 47 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 36 (6.38%) Docker
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (7.45%) Terraform
2 34 (6.03%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.30%) Ansible
4 8 (1.42%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.24%) Grafana
5 7 (1.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.24%) Puppet
6 6 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 398 (70.57%) Microsoft
2 68 (12.06%) Databricks
3 21 (3.72%) Facebook
4 20 (3.55%) Oracle
5 15 (2.66%) Commvault
6 10 (1.77%) New Relic
7 9 (1.60%) Apple
8 8 (1.42%) Google
9 7 (1.24%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.06%) Adobe
10 6 (1.06%) Citrix
10 6 (1.06%) Sun
10 6 (1.06%) VMware
11 5 (0.89%) SAP
12 4 (0.71%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.71%) Nintex
12 4 (0.71%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.53%) RedGate
13 3 (0.53%) Xamarin
13 3 (0.53%) Yahoo!